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Subject: Re: PPP under 2.2.2 Release (GENERIC) 
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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>     I seem to hav trouble with adding a route link to PPP. I've tried :
> "add <routerip> <routerhostname> <gateway>" in combination with
> "add 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 <gateway>"
> 
> I so a 'show route' and the only line thingie I get is 127.0.0.1.

What's <gateway> ?  Only an IP number works - names aren't 
understood.  Also, look at the man page for a description of what 
each arg is (add <dst> <mask> <gateway>).

> Also PPP tends to hang up now and again even though I set timeout to
> 9999. It's weird
> like that. I'm manually typing everything under PPP to.

You'll need to find out more about why it's losing the connection.  
The latest version of ppp (see http://www.freebsd.org/~brian) has 
much better logging capabilities than the version in 2.2.2.

> John
> 
> trinsic@ix.netcom.com
> 

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
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